Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
GLM 5 offers 56.6K more tokens in context window than Grok 3 mini. Grok 3 mini is $2.56 cheaper per million tokens. Both models have their strengths depending on your specific coding needs.
Zhipu AI
GLM-5 is a large language model from Zhipu AI with 745 billion total parameters and 44 billion active parameters per inference, designed for agentic intelligence, advanced reasoning, and frontier-level performance. It features a 200K token context window and targets complex multi-step tasks requiring sustained reasoning and tool use. GLM-5 is available via Zhipu AI's Z.ai platform under an MIT license.
xAI
Grok 3 mini, released by xAI alongside Grok 3 in February 2025, is a compact reasoning model from the Grok 3 family featuring RL-enhanced Think mode for extended chain-of-thought processing. It features a 131K token context window and targets STEM tasks, mathematics, and coding applications where cost-efficient reasoning with configurable depth is required.
11 months newer

Grok 3 mini
xAI
2025-02-17
GLM 5
Zhipu AI
2026-02-11
Cost per million tokens (USD)
GLM 5
Grok 3 mini
Context window and performance specifications
Available providers and their performance metrics
GLM 5
Zhipu AI
Grok 3 mini
GLM 5
Grok 3 mini
GLM 5
Grok 3 mini
xAI